Counties of Wisconsin; 63; Juneau County

The county seat of today is county of Wisconsin is Mostyn. The featured county in this edition of the counties of Wisconsin is Juneau. In a few minutes we'll hear from the area's citizens and University of Wisconsin Extension staff. About the county and extension programs. First a portion of our history of Juneau County as adapted by AJ carriage from Juneau County agriculture County Agricultural Statistics series Wisconsin. The history of our country is made up of the history of the several states of the Union. And of the counties which make up these states. It is from the work of those who labored in the fields mines workshops and the factories. That came the impulse which

changed the wilderness into a rich and powerful country. The more knowledge we have of our past as compared with the present the more we contribute to the life of the community in which we live. Wisconsin counties present a considerable variety and topography. Soil climate and the length of the growing season. This variation brought about a certain diversity in the manner in which farm production developed in the different counties. This development took place against the background of the clearing of the forest which originally covered most of the region that later became Wisconsin. Of the changes which have occurred in Wisconsin's farming. Three of the most important ones are the change from growing things mainly for home use to wheat production. The change from wheat growing to livestock and the great growth of dairying. These changes took place in the various counties at different times depending upon when they were settled. In general settlement proceeded from south to north and toward the north east along Lake

Michigan as far as and including Brown County and toward the northwest along the Mississippi River. As far as and including St. Croix County by 1860 the Wisconsin counties presented different degrees of agricultural development. The most intensively developed being the southeastern counties. The counties which are located in upper Wisconsin to which we now refer as the North were by 900 still mainly a region of forests with agriculture advancing in some areas. The distinctive characteristic of this northern section of the state is that it's most developed agricultural counties went from lumbering or Pioneer clearing of land do we growing. And then the dairying in Juneau County. There was originally some lumbering most of the land however was cleared by Pioneer farmers. Juno County was originally included within Adams County. However in 1850 5 the residents of Adams County voted to divide the original county into

two counties one east and the other west of the main channel of the Wisconsin River. Juneau County was thus established with its present boundaries in 1856 the county was named in honor of Solomon Juno who was influential in the founding and early history of the city of Milwaukee. Most of the early settlers of Juneau County were attracted there by its timber resources particularly the white pine. There were however two Frenchmen who came to the area for the purpose of establishing trading post one of these was John T loaned and attache of the Hudson Bay Company who arrived in Juneau county in the summer of 1834 and built a trading post near the head of the lemon Weir river and another at a point where Mostyn is now situated. The other French trader was a man named provinces who in 1836 built a trading post in the present town of Armenia and later established another post at the mouth of the lemon Weir river. In the fall of 1836

Sammy will be Bill Clinton and John T Kingston the former a native of Ireland. Heard of an extensive forest of pine timber and fine water power on the lemon where River about 12 miles from its mouth. As the Winnebago Indians had just sold their lands on the south side of the river to the government Bill Clinton and Kingston decided to undertake an exploration in that direction with the intention to engage in the lumber business. They started from Racine in December of 1837. They found but a few settlers beyond the Fox River 30 miles west of Racine from Rock River to the Four Lakes now Madison there were no signs of white men only a blazed line of trees indicating the road to the future capital of the state. They proceeded toward Rowan's trading post on the Military Road 12 miles from Fort Winnebago near the present village of point net then struck west across the head of elk prairie across the Wisconsin River and made for the lemon Weir river and to the present site of the village of New

Lisbon. Mr. Kingston did know lumbering on a lemon we're here. He did however become one of the first operators on the Yellow River in 1848 the town of Kingston was named for him. In the meantime the first permanent settlement was established in the southeastern part of the county near Rocky Glen by a muscle Williams CB Smith and Harvey Allen located there in 1838. The three build a shanty at the Dells Eddy for the purpose of getting out square timber for the lower river market. Later Mr. Allen built a house on the rise of ground at the foot of the Dells at the place where the shanty had been. Smith and Wilson left Allen in possession of the shanty and the claim at the foot of the Dells in 1840 and went to Salk County but returned to the present county of Juneau in the fall of 1840 to a log on a lemon wherever the following winter. And in the spring of 1843 drove the logs down the river to the present site of the village of New Lisbon. During the winter of 1830 536

Alva Culver Mr. Bernard and one or two other men got out a raft of square timber at the Dells and along the mouth of the lemon Weir river for government buildings at Fort Winnebago lumber operations had already begun at the Whitney Rapids higher up on the river in the present county wood. Now our first conversation led by Barbara hug. I'm Barbara Hogg and I'm the Juno County Extension home economist and today I have with me three ladies they are Mrs. Arlene Christiansen and Mrs. Halley young who are volunteer 4H leaders and I also have with me Mrs. Bernadine Walsh who is our Juneau County Extension homemakers County president after a discussion of a variety of activities interest centered on the horse project which we have found to have a good deal of interest in several Wisconsin got a huge lead to this question.

When you are having your horse projects are you looking at how to raise the animal and how to groom the animal or. More on like the feed in the nutrition and the care or just exactly what are you looking for in in the foreach project. We stress animal health as much as we can. We have quite a few kids who have bred their mares and now have the young soul that they are raising now that's a whole new adventure for them because you don't have a horse that you can plop on the back you have to teach this horse everything. This young fellow. So we now have a mare and foal class at the fair and then the yearling class and on and then that way the child can really come along with this animal. I did something that he really has put everything into and if he flops he has no one to blame but himself. Bernadine Walsh is here to talk to us today about the extension homemakers